Simple Handmade

Easter candlelight DIY In some countries the Easter holiday has already started, but here in Holland we first really celebrate it Sunday, the first Easter day and Monday, the second Easter day. That also means that I am still busy preparing small things for our coming Easter weekend. Yesterday I made these two very easy candlelight. I love the simplicity about them! The first one is very simple. It’s an empty eggshell with a tea light in. I placed it in a small tea light candlestick made out of concrete. You can also choose to put some moss around the candlestick to create the idea of a little bird nest, but this time I like to keep them simple because I make the second idea look more like a nest. This candlelight is made from an old kitchen jar. I started with placing some thick metal wire on the top…

Today I want to show you my Leaf art made out of thread and nails. I love crafting and especially all different kind of craft. Sometimes I get my own ideas and sometimes I just want to make something I have seen somewhere else. Like this Leaf art I found on Pinterest right here. I thought it looked amazing and wanted to try to make this leaf for a long time. Now I finally did, and I must admit that it was not as easy as I thought it would be. There were not much instruction by the pictures, but I thought it couldn’t be that difficult. Well… it wasn’t really difficult, it was more that I needed to do some things better and more carefully and I needed to take the time. When I started I thought I would make it slightly different from the original. I love to…

Today I want to give you a DIY – From old retro breadbox to Scandinavian/Industrial side table. Years ago I bought this old bread box in a second hand shop for the children’s room. The girls had a lot of retro stuff in their rooms and it was a perfect storage for toys + I loved the flowers and the colour combination. However the girls and I are done with that much retro at home, and my daughters didn’t want it in their room’s any longer. I was thinking about bringing it back to the second hand shop, but…… then I got the idea of giving it a makeover. Because it is made of a metal material it would be a perfect object with an industrial kind of look, and the colour black would fit perfectly to my work area/room. Everywhere here in Holland you can find these kind of…

Easy wrapping tip with great effect This weekend we had a 9 year old birthday party. Going to a birthday party sometimes comes with a challenge in finding the right present. But this time it was luckily not that difficult. It was a birthday girl and that makes it for me so much easier to find something special. I have two girls myself, so I am use to all that girly stuff and kind of know what is hot and what is not. A second challenge that I like to take is wrapping the present in a special way. Make it interesting before you see what you really get. You can buy all kind of nice things to decorate your presents with, but I prefer to do it my way and not too expensive. After all the wrapping always get thrown away after it has been unwrapped and I find…

DIY Concrete lamp I got this great idea for pimping my old Ikea lamp from Pinterest and I wanted to try it myself. A concrete lamp above the girls desks would be a perfect match with the new style they now have there, but I was afraid of buying one completely made out of concrete because it properly would be to heavy for our celling. The lamp that I have from Ikea is very light of weight and only need a thin layer of concrete all over so I imagine that it would be an easy project to do. I must admit that I have never worked with concrete before. You see a lot of great DIY’s everywhere with concrete and I have for a while wanted to try different thing out with that material and this will be my first project. This is what you need for making…

I love to recycle old stuff and give it a new life, and I specially have a weakness for wooden blocks. I don’t know why? but you can do so many different things with them. I will here give you a description for a DIY Memory game that you can easily make yourself. All you need is for this DIY Memory: Wooden blocks ( very easy to find in the second hand shops) Important is to look for the same shape, otherwise the game will be too easy. Paper in different colors (paper with a lot of different patterns and pictures will make it more fun and colorful) Think about using old magazines and leftovers from wall paper. Try to use what you already have at home. A scissor or a hobby knife Glue (for paper) A little punch. You can use any form you like. You can also easily…

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Hi! My name is Marianne and I am a creative homemum who loves to cook, recycle, take pictures, decorate and create new things for in and around the house. Follow me here on my blog for new inspiration.